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failing off and on it seems. 5 minutes ago it was working for me, now it's failing every time.

Surprised to see Microsoft having issues on a blog _(don't mean that in a snarky way, just commenting)_

Optimizing the research.microsoft.com blog for heavy traffic is probably low on their priority list.

> Optimizing the research.microsoft.com blog for heavy traffic is probably low on their priority list.

You'd imagine it is hosted on azure and would scale with a single click ... it's not a question of priority.

Not to mention.. it's a blog. I thought a CDN layer made that sort of a no-brainer. We're not talking a highly dynamic experience here.. this could be static if they wanted, heh.

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